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  This should be required educational material in public schools in America.  As well, it should be required listening (over and over until it sinks in) for ALL politicians and legislators. The Wheel of Deluded Capitalism

  Please Call Me by My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow — even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am...

      The Song Of The Twelve Deceptions Worldly affairs are all deceptive; So I seek the Truth Divine. Excitements and distractions are illusions; So I meditate on the Non-dual Truth. Companions and servants are deceptive; So I remain in solitude. Money and possessions are also deceptive; So if I have them, I give them away. Things in the outer world are all illusion; The Inner Mind is that which I observe. Wandering thoughts are all deceptive; So I only tread the Path of Wisdom. Deceptive are the teachings of Expedient Truth; The Final Truth is that on which I meditate. Books written in black ink are all misleading; I only meditate on the Pith-Instructions of the Whispered Lineage. Words and sayings, too, are but illusion; At ease, I rest my mind in the effortless state. Birth and death are both illusions; I observe but the truth of No-Arising. The common mind is in every way misleading; And so I practice how to animate Awareness. The Mind-holding Practice is misleading ...

The Profound Definitive Meaning For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns In the content seen not even an atom exists A seer and seen refined until they're gone This way of realizing view, it works quite well When meditation is clear light river flow There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks Meditator and object refined until they're gone This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well When you're sure that conducts work is luminous light And you're sure that interdependence is emptiness A doer and deed refined until they're gone This way of working with conduct, it works quite well When biased thinking has vanished into space No phony facades, eight dharmas, nor hopes and fears, A keeper and kept refined until they're gone This way of keeping samaya, it works quite well When you've finally discovered your mind is dharmakaya And you're really doing yourself and others good A winner and won refined until they're gone This way o...

  The Song Of View, Practice, And Action Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action, Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature! For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment There are three Key-points you should know: All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind; The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination Which can neither be conceived nor touched. These are the Key-points of the View. Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya; The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful; Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort. These are the Key-points of Practice. In the action of naturalness The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow; All the Ten Vices are thus purified. By corrections or remedies The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed. These are the Key-points of Action. There is no Nivana to attain beyond; There is no Samsara here to renounce; Truly to know the Self-mind It is to be...

  When the Dharma moves in you good things begin to happen. With practice inner peace, serenity, and happiness begins to grow in you and the world you live in, as well as all things in it, take on a new perspective.  Ridding oneself of focus on self interest, often at the expense of others, and turning to compassion and love for all fellow beings has profound effects on a person. When one becomes less selfish amd more selfless the world becomes a warmer, better place for us all. We are, in fact, all brothers and sisters. The first "human couple" is responsible for the life of every human breathing and walking today. Yes or no?  So, seeing we all share the same "original ancestors" it should be easy to see that we are all interconnected as well as interdependent on other beings. We always have been. Even given the west's fixation on fierce individualism and self interest.  Perhaps it's time (it's really past time) for folks in the US of A to reevaluate th...

  Deeper and meaningful expeiences are found within oneself, never to be found outside of oneself. Suffering (or unhappiness) is caused by the Three Posions,  greed, ignorance and hatred .  Enjoy the video... it speaks truth.